Prism

AMSTERDAM, July 3 (Reuters) - The Dutch parliament will investigate whether alleged eavesdropping by the United States extended to the Netherlands, after a majority of lawmakers indicated on Wednesday they would back a full parliamentary inquiry. Four parties, including both members of the governing coalition, supported an investigation into whether security services in the staunchly pro-U.S. Netherlands had made use of illegally gathered material, media reported. ...

"Who do you think created the first stone spear?" Temple Grandin asked, wearing her trademark Western shirt and looking out over the capacity crowd Saturday at the UIC Forum. "It wasn't the social yuckity-yucks around the campfire, that's for sure. " More likely, she implied, it was someone on the autism spectrum. Einstein may have been autistic. Steve Jobs, too. "Half of Silicon Valley is on the spectrum," she said. Funny, warm and blunt, Grandin (who earned her...

OTTAWA, June 10 (Reuters) - Reports the United States is secretly collecting vast amounts of personal data have alarmed Canada's privacy commissioner and she will press to see if Canadians have been affected, a spokesman for the commissioner said on Monday. The office of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart will also contact data protection authorities around the world to discuss whether to mount a joint fact-finding effort into the recent revelations,...

VIENNA/DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Austrian student group fighting for online privacy in Europe got the go-ahead for a legal challenge in Ireland's High Court over the transfer of personal data to a U.S. spy agency. The group, europe-v-facebook, had demanded an investigation into allegations that companies including Apple and Facebook help the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) harvest email and other private data from European citizens. Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor...

"Who do you think created the first stone spear?" Temple Grandin asked, wearing her trademark Western shirt and looking out over the capacity crowd Saturday at the UIC Forum. "It wasn't the social yuckity-yucks around the campfire, that's for sure. " More likely, she implied, it was someone on the autism spectrum. Einstein may have been autistic. Steve Jobs, too. "Half of Silicon Valley is on the spectrum," she said. Funny, warm and blunt, Grandin (who earned her...

2 stars (out of 4) Katy Perry and her gaggle of producers go “spiritual”? That was the advance word on “Prism” (Capitol), the follow-up to one of the most commercially successful albums of the last decade. On the 2010 release “Teenage Dream,” Perry and her song-massagers, including Swedish teen-pop wizard Max Martin, went for girls-gone-wild escapades and hit it big. The album produced five No. 1 singles and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide with its mix of high-energy...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A secret U.S. court overseeing government domestic surveillance activities has sided with Yahoo Inc and ordered the Obama administration to declassify and publish a 2008 court decision justifying Prism, the data collection program revealed last month by former security contractor Edward Snowden. The ruling could offer a rare glimpse into how the government has legally justified its spy agencies' data collection programs...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure on Tuesday to toughen her stance against the United States over its spy program, after her interior minister failed to convince lawmakers he had received answers during a trip to Washington. Hans-Peter Friedrich briefed a confidential parliamentary committee in charge of intelligence issues about his talks in the United States last week, saying these were just the start of a long process of discussion and...

* Internet spying scandal boosts European cloud services * Doubts over security of data on U.S.-owned servers * Europe wants to build cloud sector to rival U.S. players * Domestic agencies may be watching even if U.S. excluded By Leila Abboud and Paul Sandle PARIS/LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - France has its "Sovereign Cloud" project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label "Cloud Services: Made in Germany", all trying...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A secret U.S. court overseeing government domestic surveillance activities has sided with Yahoo Inc and ordered the Obama administration to declassify and publish a 2008 court decision justifying Prism, the data collection program revealed last month by former security contractor Edward Snowden. The ruling could offer a rare glimpse into how the government has legally justified its spy agencies' data collection programs...

The sex lives of modern cities - Berlin in the 1920s, New York or San Francisco in the 1970s - tend to be characterized in terms of underground cabarets and over-the-top discos, of fast times fueled by carefree hedonism. But the sex life of the Belarusian capital of Minsk, as conceived by the Belarus Free Theatre, is about something less flashy and more fundamental. Human identity and freedom, as seen through the prism of sexuality, are the central concerns...

AMSTERDAM, July 3 (Reuters) - The Dutch parliament will investigate whether alleged eavesdropping by the United States extended to the Netherlands, after a majority of lawmakers indicated on Wednesday they would back a full parliamentary inquiry. Four parties, including both members of the governing coalition, supported an investigation into whether security services in the staunchly pro-U.S. Netherlands had made use of illegally gathered material, media reported. ...

Living Proof: How to categorize this drink? Like many things at chef Matthias Merges' Yusho, it defies labeling. (One example from the food side: takoyaki, the octopus fritters found on the streets of Osaka, are re-imagined here with duck confit or salmon roe.) It's not purebred Japanese, but perhaps philosophically Japanese - clean flavor lines, a notion of balance, favoring subtlety over bold surprises. There's plenty going on in Living Proof: The base is three-year cask-aged El Dorado rum, vanilla...

* Internet spying scandal boosts European cloud services * Doubts over security of data on U.S.-owned servers * Europe wants to build cloud sector to rival U.S. players * Domestic agencies may be watching even if U.S. excluded By Leila Abboud and Paul Sandle PARIS/LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - France has its "Sovereign Cloud" project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label "Cloud Services: Made in Germany", all trying...

"White Hispanic. " That's how The New York Times, Reuters and other media outlets have opted to describe George Zimmerman, a man who would simply be Hispanic if he hadn't shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The term, rarely if ever used before this tragedy, is necessary in telling the Martin story in a more comfortable way. What's the comfortable way? It's the way the blame for Martin's death belongs squarely at the feet of "the system. " And "the system" is a white thing, don't you know.